HBO will have more reasons to crow in its advertising. The premium cable channel topped all networks with 15 prizes. NBC placed second with 10, followed by PBS with eight, Fox and Netflix with seven apiece, CBS with six and ABC with five.

"Between Two Ferns" was named best short-format, live-action entertainment show for Zach Galifianakis' interview with Obama. "Between Two Ferns" is on the Funny or Die website.

CBS' broadcast of the 67th annual Tony Awards was honored in a special class. Neil Patrick Harris was producer and host. The Tony telecast was also honored for the song "Bigger," which Harris performed.

The best variety special was the "AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Mel Brooks" on TNT.

Awards for guest actors are presented at the creative arts ceremony. In dramatic series, the winners were Joe Morton for ABC's "Scandal" and Allison Janney for Showtime's "Masters of Sex."

For documentary or nonfiction series, there was a tie between PBS' "American Masters" and Showtime's "Years of Living Dangerously" about climate change. Top documentary special was "JFK" from PBS' "American Experience."

Other celebrity winners included Jane Lynch for hosting "Hollywood Game Night" on NBC; Harry Shearer for voice-over performance on "The Simpsons: Four Regrettings and a Funeral" on Fox; and Jeremy Irons for narrating "Game of Lions" on Nat Geo Wild.